as more than half us long as the whole seed: іп Paverta 
the flesh of the berty as growing to the seed; the albumen 
as cartilaginous ; and the rudiment of the future plant as 
less than half the length of the seed. Тһе style seems, be- 
side, to be proportionately longer in Paverra than Ixora. 
The present species, of very general occurrence in the 
East Indies, was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790; 
but is yet extremely rare in our collections ; and we know 
of no published figure taken from one cultivated on this 
side the tropic. Our drawing was made from a specimen 
which blossomed in March, in the hothouse at the nursery 
of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. 
According to the author of the Hortus Malabaricus, tba 
whole shrub seldom exceeds 3 feet in its native place. Stem 
úpright, round, branched. Leaves spreading, distantly decus- 
sated, obversely oval, lanceolate, acuminate, farther tapered 
towards the petiole than towards the point, shining and 
smooth above, paler underneath, with a short close nap, 
nearly as fine as that оп a peach: stipules between the pe- 
tioles which they connect, close-pressed, sphacelately point- 
ed; panicles rameous, terminal, loosely many-flowered, 
subcymously fastigiant, brachiate; general peduncle green, 
partial ones subdivided into shortly pedicled corymbules : 
bractes single, close-pressed, membranous, more or less 
hairy, upper ones nearly obsolete. Flowers white. Germen 
, inferior, green, small, turbinately rounded, through a mag- 
nifier pubescent: calyx a shallow quadridenticulated rim 
continuous with the wall of the germen. Corolla hypocra- 
teriform, 3 of an inch long; tube subclavately filiform, 
slightly curved, bearded within the faux, nearly 3 times 
longer than the limb; segments recurvedly rotate oblong 
obtuse, villous at the foot within, and along a narrow cen- 
tral streak at the back, marked with a green spot at the 
ends. Anthers subsessile, long, sagittately linear, greenish 
while entire, inserted within the orifice of the tube, loosely 
reclined in the intervals of the segments; ash-coloured 
‘aud twisted after they have parted with the sulphur-co- 
loured pollen. Style an inch long, filiform, upright, smooths 
: stigma its green slightly clubbed ‘villous continuation, com- 
pressed and rather broader at the summit, where it is 
marked by an open seam round the edge, as if of two 
- pieces conjoined by their inner surfaces. 
—— 
в Germen and calyx. $ Corolla dissected vertically. с Pisti}, 
